Cartridge.



Patented June 3, I902;

J. ORCUTT.

C A R T R l D G E.

(Application filed Feb. 28, 1902.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEROME oncu'r'r, or BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, AssIeNon' TO THE union METALLIC CARTRIDGE coiumny, F BRIDGEPORT, CON- NEoTioUT, A CORPOl'tA'lION OF co NEeTIcuT.

CARTRIDGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,7 63, dated June 3, 1902.

Anpllcution filed February 28, 1902. Serial No. 96,076- (No model.) 7

To (all 1071 0111, it nut r] concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME Oneurr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fair-field, State of Connecti cut, have invented a newand useful Oartridge, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates more especially to cartridges using smokeless powder, and has for its object to provide a smokle'ss-powder cartridge in which lubrication of the bullet shall be dispensed with, but in which lubrication of the gun-barrel and the preventing of leading shall-be secured by the interposition between thebullet and the powder of an absorptive wad saturated with lubricant and in which the powder shall be protected against injury by thelubricant when exposed to heat by the interposition between the saturated wad and the powder of a glazed wad which shall be grease-proof under all ordinary and even extraordinary conditions to which cartridges are liable. to be subjected. It isof course well understood that cartridges having lubricated bullets, are apt to be seriously injured and sometimes completely spoiled by 7 exposure to the sun in hot climates. I am quite well aware that cartridges have been made in which a layer of grease has been placed beneath the bullet and wads interposed between the layer of grease and the powder and in which various kinds of lubricating or cleaning wads have been interposed between the bullet and the powder. So far as I am aware, however, ,no cartridge of this character has been able fully to ineet the requirements of, .use in hot climates and prove itself always reliable, 1'10 matter he old it may be or to what varyi n g conditions of temperature it may have been subjected in diiferent positions in which cartridges are liable to be placed. In addition to the objection of unreliability all the cartridges of this class of which l am aware have been expensive to ence characters to designate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a ca:- tridge,illustrating the application of my novel invention, and Fig. 2 is a sectional perspectire, on an enlarged scale, of the glazed wad.

10 denotes the cartridge-shell, 11 the bullot, 12 the powder, 13 the saturated wad, and

14 a lower wad having a glazed upper surface 1 15. Wad 13 may be made of ordinary blot ting-paper or any inexpensive absorptive material which may be readily saturated with lubricant and will act under ordinary conditions to hold the lubricant that it takes up.

The lower wad It is out from ordinary pasteboard provided with a glazed'grease-proof surface.

The cartridge is loaded in the usual manner. Wad 14 is set down tightly on the pewder, then the saturated wad is placed over 1 that, and then the bullet is seated, as 'usual.-* I find in practice that the grease-proof glaz ing upon wad 14 elfectually prevents anyof the lubricant that may pass from thesa't-u rated wad when the cartridge is exposed to heat from reaching the powder, it being of course understood that the glaked wad fits closely in the cartridge'shell, so that even when subjected to a heat that will soften the lubricant with which wad 13. is saturated none of it can iissto the powder and in any. way impair its action when detonated or lirod.

llaving thus described my invention, I claim- A. cartridge having a greased wad and-a grease-proof wad interposei'l between the bullet and the powder, the grease-proof wad being composed of pasteboard having a glazed grease-proof surface and fitting closely in the cartridge-shell and located between the powder and the greased wad.

In testimony whereof l. ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

lCltOM It (l'lttll'P'l. Witnpsses:

M. B. Llhrrsronn,

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